Healthcare, the climate and other interesting things
Move over healthcare concerns, the planet is burning up
The easiest way to make sure people who actually want to read my blog can find it is to make a website. Which could be fun! So here it is. The photo above is me, posing next to the Zaraf River in South Sudan at sunset. It was really hot. Probably 92 degrees F and 80% humidity. Average temperatures in East Africa have increased by over 2 degrees in the last 100 years, over twice what the world has seen overall. This website has plenty of room for a little climate activism!
In 2009 I began to write about healthcare and why is cost so much. We pay so much more than other countries without much to show for it. I decided to share some stories and explore this mysterious question. There are over 350 posts spanning over 10 years and they are still interesting. I am also still writing new ones.
We need to be working on limiting greenhouse gas emissions, sequestering carbon and preparing for a generally hotter world. But it's not necessarily the heat. Sometimes it will be floods or harsh winters. Old Fangak, South Sudan, including where I was standing, has now been underwater for a year.
People are building a dike to keep the river out of the hospital compound at Old Fangak. Malaria is caused by mosquitoes who thrive in wet areas. There are many more cases now.
Why, you may ask, all of a sudden am I writing about climate change in this space? Because it's important enough that it dwarfs almost anything else. Also it is much easier to navigate to this space so it will link to both places! http://whyisamericanhealthcaresoexpensive.blogspot.com/2021/10/why-i-havent-been-writing-much-climate.html
Are you interested in reading about the ivermectin in Covid 19 controversy? I was. So I read a bunch of stuff about it and combined it with my experiences lately, watched some people who are passionate about it on YouTube and wrote a blog post. https://whyisamericanhealthcaresoexpensive.blogspot.com/2021/09/ivermectin-for-covid-does-it-work-we.html
I just wrote a blog post about systemic racism. I heard a wonderful talk about learning to embrace diversity and recognizing peoples' different life experiences By Dr. Kimberly Manning of Emory University School of Medicine. She inspired me to write about one aspect of her talk. Writing about racism as a white person is difficult, because white people get to be the experts about everything and I am not an expert in racism. But speaking out is important, and I do have some things to say that are rooted in my own experience. So here it is! http://whyisamericanhealthcaresoexpensive.blogspot.com/2021/05/racism-structural-racism-and-wonderful.html
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